Experimental manipulation of telomere length: Does it reveal a corner-stone role for telomerase in the natural variability of individual fitness?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1741, 2018, Pages

  Criscuolo, F ^a   Smith, S ^b   Zahn, S ^a   Heidinger, B J ^c   Haussmann, M F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Fitness; Telomerase; Telomerase activation; Telomere

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; COEVOLUTION; ENZYME; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMALIA;

TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOLOGICAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL VARIATION, INDIVIDUAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 85040705551     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0440     Document Type: Review

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